Posts Tagged ‘risk of developing dementia’

Everyone has had one of those days where a night of choppy or short sleep leads into a morning of mental haze. New research presented at the Neuroscience 2012 conference suggests that sleep deprivation might be worse for you than you think. For starters, sleepiness in the elderly could be an indication of Alzheimer’s risk, […]

A country childhood may put people at more than twice the risk of Alzheimer’s disease much later in life, new research suggests. However, the study from Edinburgh University has been unable to cast light on the reasons behind the phenomenon. Alzheimer’s experts have urged caution about the findings and say there is no compelling reason to flee […]

There is evidence that poor diet is one cause of Alzheimer’s. If ever there was a case for the precautionary principle, this is it because regulation is light, the industry can kill off the only effective system for telling us how much fat, sugar and salt food contains. When you raise the subject of over-eating […]

Gorging on junk food may not just make you fat – it could also give you dementia. Evidence is growing that a bad diet triggers Alzheimer’s by poisoning the brain. With studies on animals strongly implicating the hormone insulin in the process, some believe Alzheimer’s to be another version of diabetes. Bizarre as the claim […]

As we age, our sleep patterns change. We’ve all heard the complaints: “I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep!” Some sleep experts estimate that as many as 40 percent of older adults suffer sleeping problems such as sleep apnea and insomnia. Now, researchers have found a link […]